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Message: [QUOTE="Danoff, post: 13515101, member: 8497"] You're assuming that someone forced to death does not prefer it. That's not necessarily a safe assumption. Would you deny capital punishment in a case where someone indicated that they might prefer it? Like, capital punishment is only on the table if they don't want it? Generally speaking, the US does not torture, and the purpose of judicial sentencing is not to torture (see 8th amendment in the Bill of Rights). Sentencing has several purposes, to try to make right (eg: fines), to try to rehabilitate, and to protect society. Making someone suffer is not the goal. I find preventing prison suicide to be in violation of at least the 8th amendment (and I think at least one other amendment). But also, it is perhaps the [I]most[/I] fundamental right. So to strip someone of that right truly means that our judicial system has no boundaries when it comes to what it will impose on people. [/QUOTE]